Tero Seppälä
Tero Seppälä 
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| Association |
 Finland
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| birthday | 25th January 1996 (age 24) |
| place of birth | Järvenpää , Finland |
| Career | |
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| job | college student |
| society | Haapajärven kiilat |
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2015 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2017 |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
| Overall World Cup | 37th ( 2019/20 ) |
| Individual World Cup | 48th (2019/20) |
| Sprint World Cup | 35th (2019/20) |
| Pursuit World Cup | 40th (2019/20) |
| Mass start world cup | 37th (2019/20) |
| Continental Cup balance | |
| Overall IBU Cup | 102nd ( 2019/20 ) |
| last change: March 17th, 2020 | |
Tero Seppälä (born January 25, 1996 in Järvenpää ) is a Finnish biathlete .
Career
Tero Seppälä started in the IBU Cup for the first time in 2015 and took part in two races in the 2015/16 season. He took part in the Junior World Championships the previous season and finished fourth in the relay. In the sprint race he achieved his best individual result with an 18th place. At the Junior World Championships in 2016 he achieved his best placement in individual with a 34th place. With the Finnish relay, Seppälä was eighth. In the 2016/17 season he took part in the IBU Cup races again, but only achieved points once. In the second half of the season he started four times in the World Cup and took part in the World Championships and the Junior World Championships . At the Junior World Championships he reached eighth place in the individual and fifth place in the relay.
In the 2017/18 season he achieved his first World Cup points with a 24th place. During the rest of the season, Seppälä was among the top 40 athletes three times. He finished the season in 61st place overall.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , he achieved his best results so far in a race at World Cup level. In the sprint he was 20th and in the subsequent pursuit 25th. After a 76th place in the individual , he was the last athlete to qualify for his first mass start . In this he reached the 21st place. He took part in the mixed relay race with Laura Toivanen , Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Olli Hiidensalo and came in sixth. This was the best result of a Finnish mixed relay since sixth place at the 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang. In the very first race of the 2018/19 World Cup , the result increased again with 5th place in the mixed relay in Pokljuka . It was the best result of a Finnish mixed relay since the competition was launched. The same season ran as at the 2018 Olympic Games. Only Laura Toivanen was replaced by Mari Eder . Even in the individual races, he was always able to place between places 35 and 50 in the first trimester (with the exception of the sprint in Pokljuka with position 94).
Tero Seppälä is a left shooter and his father Timo Seppälä was also a biathlete.
statistics
Biathlon World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
- 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
- Relay: including mixed relays
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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| 1st place | ||||||
| 2nd place | ||||||
| 3rd place | ||||||
| Top 10 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Scoring | 1 | 4th | 1 | 10 | 16 | |
| Starts | 5 | 14th | 8th | 12 | 39 | |
| Status: January 15, 2019 | ||||||
winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games:
| Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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| sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Men's relay | Mixed relay | |
Olympic Winter Games 2018  | Pyeongchang
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20th | 25th | 76. | 21st | - | 6th |
Biathlon world championships
| World Championship | Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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| year | place | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Men's relay | Mixed relay |
| 2017 |
 Hochfilzen
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79. | 71. | - | - | 20th | - |
Junior World Championships
Results at the Biathlon World Championships for Juniors
| World Championship | singles | sprint | persecution | Season | |
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| year | place | ||||
| 2015 |
 Minsk
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63. | 18th | 36. | 4th |
| 2016 |
 Cheile Grădiştei
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34. | 47. | 50. | 8th. |
| 2017 |
 Osrblie
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8th. | 31. | 19th | 5. |
Web links
- Tero Seppälä in the IBU database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tero Seppälä haluaa palauttaa miesten ampumahiihtokunnian (Finnish). Karjalainen, accessed January 4, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Seppälä, Tero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Järvenpää , Finland |